Colleagues, The Surviving Sepsis Campaign invites you and your team to a webcast on July 11, 2013 entitled, Sepsis- Impact of Coding upon Metrics. Coding for severe sepsis and septic shock is a complex, highly-nuanced skill that has wide implications for generating data to support the effort to reduce mortality from sepsis. Too often, coding is not clinically congruent with the incidence nor severity of sepsis, in turn, providing misleading reports on the metrics of an institution's patient population. Paul Evans, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CCS-P, will provide insight into how actions by all members of the sepsis team affect the generation of valuable data from coding on Thursday, July 11, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm Central time.
Mr. Evans will provide tips for clinicians to ensure that they use precise language in patient records that fully describes sepsis including the initiating or precipitating cause; underlying pathology; severity or specificity; and complications or consequences. Complete and accurate reporting can then show the true picture of the impact of sepsis incidence and treatment both within an institution and to third parties as the effort to reduce mortality continues. To Register, visit the upcoming events<http://www.survivingsepsis.org/Resources/Pages/Webcasts.aspx> page on the website. Webcasts are free however; no CE or CME are offered. Archived materials are available on the site typically 30 days after airing. With very best regards, Lori Lori A. Harmon, RRT, MBA Director, Program Development Society of Critical Care Medicine 500 Midway Drive Mount Prospect, IL 60056 O +1-847-493-6403 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.sccm.org<http://www.sccm.org/>
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